MOS 550082.1 documents the undocumented command syntax of CATALOG. The Document is not available in MOS, though you may find this link interesting: http://erpondb.blogspot.com/2008/09/catalog-rman-backuppieces.html Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com Home Page: http://jaredstill.com On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Marcin Przepiorowski <pioro1@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Hi, > > I was testing this on Linux - 11.1.0.7 but I thing that that command should > work > on 10g too as there is no syntax error for that syntax > > RMAN> catalog device type 'sbt_tape' backuppiece 'aaa'; > > RMAN-00571: =========================================================== > RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS =============== > RMAN-00571: =========================================================== > RMAN-03002: failure of catalog command at 01/29/2010 22:54:28 > ORA-19554: error allocating device, device type: SBT_TAPE, device name: > ORA-27211: Failed to load Media Management Library > > I have to install SBT driver on Windows and Linux and tests it. > > Sorry I have no idea where in oracle doc you can find it as I didn't > use any doc > to figure out this syntax - it was just pure research ;) > > regards, > Marcin Przepiorowski >